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Fall 2015

Dhir, Satarupa

Oil sands found in Athabasca and Cold Lake regions of Northern Alberta form Canada’s primary source of energy reserves. Asphaltenes, a significant part of bitumen is often considered to be the least valuable component of crude oil due to various factors such as difficulty in transporting and...

Fall 2019

Jing Liu

The non-aqueous extraction (NAE) technique for recovering bitumen from oil sands ore has been proposed as a potential substitute to the conventional water-based extraction method in order to reduce the environmental and carbon footprint of extracting this natural resource. In the NAE process,...

Fall 2013

Khatibisepehr, Shima

In many industrial plants, development and implementation of advanced monitoring and control techniques require real-time measurement of process quality variables. However, on-line acquisition of such data may involve difficulties due to inadequacy of measurement techniques or low reliability of...

Fall 2014

Gonzalez, Ruben T

While there has been much literature in the area of system monitoring and diagnosis, most of these techniques have a relatively small scope in terms of the faults and performance issues that they are built to detect. When implementing several monitors simultaneously on a single process, a single...

Fall 2010

Gonzalez, Ruben

Data reconciliation and gross error detection are traditional methods toward detecting mass balance inconsistency within process instrument data. These methods use a static approach for statistical evaluation. This thesis is concerned with using an alternative statistical approach (Bayesian...

2008

Akande, David Oluwaseyi, 1980-

Fall 2011

Qi, Fei

The large number of control loops in a modern industrial plant poses a serious challenge for operators and engineers to monitor these loops to maintain them at optimal conditions continuously. Much research has been done on control loop performance assessment and monitoring of individual...

Spring 2019

Subramanian Balashankar, Vishal

A simplified proxy model based on a well-mixed batch adsorber for vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) based carbon dioxide capture from dry post-combustion flue gas is presented. A graphical representation of the model output allows for the rationalization of broad trends of process performance. The...

Fall 2013

Bertozzi Silva, Juliano

Bacterial contaminants are ubiquitous in yeast fermentation processes for biofuel production. In general, they compete with yeasts for nutrients, reducing overall production yield. The present project investigates the application of bacteriophages (phages), viruses infecting and killing...

Spring 2017

Hassanpourfard, Mahtab

One of the central puzzles concerning the interaction of low Reynolds number (Re<<1) fluid transport with bacterial biomass is the formation of filamentous structures called bacterial streamer. Bacterial streamers can be tethered at one or both ends to solid surfaces, while the rest of the...